Transport: Toy Boxes
October 1, 2005
Despite the hospitality industry’s ability to provide all the comforts of home wherever your schedule may take you, it is only natural to want to take the comforts of home with you, too. Those comforts may include everything from the proverbial kitchen sink to vintage racers, from hot rods to Harleys, snowmobiles to ultralights. If it belongs to you and it must be transported, then it deserves the best treatment.
Call them what you will—toy boxes, toy haulers, or SURVs (sport-utility
recreational vehicles)—these transport trucks offer the combination of living
quarters and garage in the same portable unit. They run the gamut from
mass-produced, 18-foot-long inexpensive trailers to 60-foot trucks or trailers
custom made to your specifications.
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Dynamax’s Grand Sport. (Click image to enlarge.)One Box or Two?
Thanks to motorhomes, trailers, and transporters, you can take it all with you. With a motorhome, everything is contained within one box, although most offer the ability to tow another vehicle or trailer. The “trailer” descriptor applies to those units that must be towed behind a large or medium-duty truck, while “transporter” is most frequently applied to commercial-sized rigs that need a Peterbilt or Kenworth tractor to tug them along.
Transporters populate the paddocks at most major motorsports events, and one
of the largest builders is Featherlite. With living or conference quarters in
the forward section and a full-function garage aft, transporters are capable of
keeping a multi-car race team and crew running over a long weekend, while also
impressing sponsors with the latest technology and places of respite.
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